I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars

Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by Tao3300 on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:08PM (#38072308)

I think we just keep the N in there so it's less awkward to say.

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by delecti on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:33PM (#38073695)

Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet, Netflix is now just another independent movie/TV studio. FAANG has become a term entirely independent of what it originally stood for (also "MAAA" doesn't have the same ring to it).

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by Groxx on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:16PM (#38074320)

I think it works. Just think of it as a family with a troublemaker kid.

MAAA! THEY'RE DOIN STUPID STUFF AGAIN AND THEY WON'T LET ME USE MY COMPUTER!

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by hnuser123456 on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:31PM (#38074506)

MAAAM or MAMAA

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by petters on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:46PM (#38074692)

You don't hear "Alphabet" a lot. MAGMA works

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by Chilko on Monday October 30, 2023 @07:59PM (#38077764)

As someone outside of the tech industry - Big Tech tends to be the term I use the most and is mostly understood by everyone.

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by bigstrat2003 on Monday October 30, 2023 @08:43PM (#38078281)

FAANG simply reflects what those companies are actually called. Most people don't say "Meta", they say "Facebook". And Google is still Google, they never changed names (they invented a parent company but still kept the name).

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by tubthumper8 on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:47PM (#38073913)

With the rebranding of Facebook, we could go for MANGA, but dropping the "N" would still have an interesting result.

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by nehal3m on Monday October 30, 2023 @10:14PM (#38079330)

You could call Google Alphabet and say MAAA. I’m partial to channeling my inner cow when pronouncing that.

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by Throw10987 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:53AM (#38080503)

In my part of the world that would be inner sheep.

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Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars by jihadjihad on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:39PM (#38074592)

It would be quite the GAAF

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